next up, let's go to the king of them all, rush limbaugh, overall the heritage foundation has paid limbaugh over $9.5 million. freedom works paid limbaugh $1.4 million in 2012. and then of course we have mark levin, america's for prosperity, he got shafted, they only pay him $757,000 to sponsor his radio show during the 2012 election cycle. i think he was for mitt romney. now, when americans for prosperity sponsored utah senator orrin hatch, there he is, leaven promoted hatch bee big time when the superpac ended sponsorship, levin apologized for endorsing the senator. now, it had to be some kind of a big coincidence or mix-up americans for prosperity and levin both stopped supporting hatch at the same time. finally, sean hannity, the guy who loves to stand with law breaks. before we get to him, i want to play another clip of bill o'reilly last december. according to o'reilly, not even a janitor at fox news could accept money from political groups. >> look, howard, you couldn't do that on a fox news channel, you couldn't do it on cbs or abc news. you could not take that money, in any capacit

see what rush limbaugh had to say on thursday. >> i'll give you the short version. cbs has just declared war on the heartland of america. no longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional american values, conservatives, now it's just wideo out in the open. they've hired a convert to be on a comedy show. >> we might be hearing more of that in the months to come. bill o'reilly brought up colbert and criticized him before the late show announcement. here's what he said earlier in the week. >> like many fanatics, colbert is on the extreme. he's a true expressive believer playing exclusively to other believers. the guy does do damage because he gives cover to powerful people who are selling americans a big lie, that this country is bad, that it intentionally opresses many of its own citizens. that is a lie. that point of view is shameful. >> i guess we shouldn't be surprised to hear o'reilly criticizing colbert. many think that character that colbert plays on his show is based on bill. and, of course, since this is red news/blue news, you can guess how the

-- has anybody ever come up with anything that is not a rush limbaugh -- >> i think rush limbaugh was playing a colbert character. the show has a lot of energy. he's funny. dana, do you agree? >> yes. a couple of years ago, i did a roast of stephen colbert and during our roasting him he wrote a sketch that was hilarious and i think he is very funny, on the political side of things, i don't see how he would be any different than david letterman when it comes to the war on middle america, if that's what rush wants to call it -- >> he was confrontational than david letterman. >> don't forget, he's going to do the late show, as stephen colbert, not in character, right? where's he going to do? he may become the new david letterman? >> he knows what he has to do. i can't say anything bad about jimmy fallon. he is competing against jimmy fallon. he is not going to best jimmy fallon. colbert, he is a song and dance man. he is a great improviser. if you look at all those old daily shows, before he was the stephen colbert character. bob, do you agree with me? >> i do agree with you. letterman h

>> rush limbaugh has more money than god. they couldizely invest in their open comedy show and show everybody what they position amazing great comedy is. but you'll never do it because that would prove you you actually have the chops to put something on every single night. colbert has been on every single might since 1997. >> limbaugh couldn't get any clearances or knock out any of these guys . john, what about the fact that he said that cbs has declared war on the heartland? >> i'm glad you asked. rush limbaugh is sort of like norman rock will talking about being a woman hating drug addict. they're really mad at david letterman. he created one new job. and i haven't seen them this angry since the american people elected gore to be president. they will keep on fuming about this. it's red meat for the base. but it won't last. it is amusing watching karl rove be this outraged. they two fine on their open. >> and i've been to the minnesota state fair. they carve princesses out of butter. let's be real. >> i'm in minnesota, and i

but you don't see any sustained organization on the part of liberals to go after limbaugh.e'll see if that takes place in the future. >> all right, jonathan, good to have you with us on the ed show. appreciate your time. still ahead, republican voter suppression tactics. i'll tell you, they're getting pretty creative in ohio. joins me in the rapid response panel to discuss latest assault on voting rights in the state. it's amaze. later, wisconsin republicans, what do they want to do, they want to include the threat of secession in the state party platform. ♪ ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc works with you to understand yours and help plan for your retirement. visit a branch or call now for your personal retirement review. carsthey're why we innovate. they're who we protect. they're why we make life less complicated. it's about people. we are volvo of sweden. man:scott: aye, or...ott? a mornin' of tiny voices crying out, "feed us"! man: i don't understand... scott: your grass, man! it's a living, breathing thing. it's hungry, and you've got to feed it with

if you think that this isn't real in this business, go ask rush limbaugh how that sandra thing is working out for him? how many other talkers have had to struggle because so many people left that genre? go ask fox news if they'd like to have the ratings of glenn beck but dog gone it, they just couldn't sell the guy. wao yaw say, people take to heart. what this guy said was a tarnish on the league. the league did the character thing. they did the right thing. they did what they had to do. they did what they should have done. and maybe they've made a statement, maybe more people will wake up and maybe more people will respect professional sports, realizing what an impact they have on our society. get your cell phones out. tonight's question, do you think nba commissioner adam silver was too harsh on sterling? text "a" for yes, "b" for no, 67622 or go to our blog ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment. we'll bring you the results later on. let me bring in al sharpton, head of the national action network. good to have you with us. >> good to be here, ed. >> your impressions of what happened today?

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critic, rush limbaugh.over cbs' announcement stephen colbert will take over as host "the late show" when letterman retires. >> cbs just declared war on the heartland of america. there is -- i here's no longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional american values, conservatives. now it's wide out in the open. what this hire means redefinition of what is funny and redefinition of what is comedy. >> well, colbert will reported lid break out of his fake conservative character for the hosting gig on cbs. but limbaugh's quick to rush to judgment about what comedy is. >> by the way, did you hear joe biden, joe biden was mystified how bobby jindal government his shift off at 7/11 to make a speech. you think i made a joke, ethic joke about bobby jindal don't you? i didn't. i made a joke about the bigotry of the vice president of the united states. >> if limbaugh thinks he can define funny. he can keep pretending. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast, long lasting relief, use doctor recomme

rush limbaugh said hillary staged it when a disturbed woman hurled a shoe at her on stage but now a newpiracy theory is emerging. hillary birtherism. as unbelievable as it may be, the idea that chelsea clinton's pregnancy is politically motivated to help hillary in 2016. here's steve explaining that genius theory. >> i don't mean they're making up that she's pregnant, okay, but what great timing purely accidental, purely an act of nature, purely left up to god and god answered hillary clinton's prayers and she's going to have the prop of being a new grandma while she runs for president. it just warms the heart. >> that's "hardball" for now. coming up, "your business" with j.j.ramberg. >>> today we're in the forefront of the makery economy. renting tools to entrepreneurs wanting to create the next big thing, and we go down to the floor of the advertising specialty convention to see some what c whacky ways you can promote your company. that and more on "your business." >>> small businesses are revitalizing the economy and american express open is here to help. that's why we are proud to p

we get this from he said maybe rush since we have rush limbaugh.ed. get him a onesie. >> i think everybody would be better with a onesie. that is the end of "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >>> there was some big news last week that slipped through my news crack, and it concerns someone i've admired for years and yet surprisingly is not me. i'm talking about david letterman who last thursday night announced his retirement. and i am going to miss this good man. dave has been on the

limbaugh proclaimed cbs declared war on the heartland of america.or colbert, he said he will not stay in character has he does during the show when he takes over for letterman. his character's conservative pundit. for letterman, he hasn't named a date for his final show but sometime next year. >> transformation of colbert's going to be interesting. >> as a normal guy. >> blo who is the real stephen colbert? >> talking about el nino, maybe later this year. but things are looking good. >> sunny skies, high pressure offshore now. high pressure's allowing onshore flow and fog. moving across san francisco, if you're heading near the coastline or sf tonight, cloud cover and few areas of drizzle. but that is also going to bring us some more warm weather for tomorrow and sunny skies. 6:00, we'll have details on what all of this means for your weekend and the next chance of maybe a few showers in the forecast. >> fog looked dominant in the shot. >> so beautiful. drive in and drive out in ten minutes. >> it is beautiful. >> thanks for joining us at 5:00. bria

rush limbaugh said hillary staged the altercation last week when a disturbed woman hurled a shoe at herw a new conspiracy theory is emerging from the right wing woodwork. hillary birtherism. as unbelievable as it may be, the idea that chelsea clinton's pregnancy is politically motivated to help hillary clinton in 2016. here's steve malzberg explaining that genius theory. >> i don't mean they're making up she's pregnant, okay. but what great timing purely accidental, purely an act of nature, purely left up to god and god answered hillary clinton's prayers and she's going to have the prop of being a new grandma while she runs for president. it just warms the heart. >> that's "hardball" for now. coming up, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet ag

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specifically, between the pope's teachings and rush limbaugh's orders.ember that pope francis issued an influential papal exhortion about economic inequality late last year. he urged people to reject the idolatry of money and an economy of exclusion. and that began an unusual debate about ethics in & market capitalism that continues this week and set off a few republicans who don't want anyone to challenge the, quote, magic of trickle-down economics. >> this pope makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to capitalism. this is an unfettered anti-capitalist dictate from pope francis that's going way beyond matters that are ethical. this -- this is a -- almost a statement about who should control financial markets. trickle-down is the magic. and yet here's pope francis. trickle-down policies have not been proven to work. and they reflect a naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power. what the pope has written about this is really befuddling because he's totally wrong. i mean, dramatically, embarrassingly, pu

. >>> and in pretenders tonight, fear and loathing, rush limbaugh. only reached 7.1 because enroll lees are scared. how many are signing up out of fear? how many thing oh my god if they don't sign up of fear? how many think if they don't sign up they are going to pay a penalty and go to jail. probably all of them. >> the real fear monger is limbaugh himself. >> people are divorcing in order to afford obamacare. it is busting up families. obamacare is going to increase the divorce rate. >> they were caught trying to sneak in the death panels. it is long lines. it is red tape. it's delays in care. it's denials of coverage. >> you're going to get divorced because you got health care. that is a hell of a tactic. americans are overjoyed to have an affordable health care option. causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. that's why i recommend polident. [ male announcer ] cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ tra

limbaugh blasts colbert pick. cbs has just declared war on the heartland of america.ou certainly know stephen colbert is going to replace david letterman when he retires a year from now. rush is saying this is a war being called against the heartland of america. i think there is more to the story. i think it is no coincidence back in 2010, stephen colbert and jon stewart had a massive rally right on the mall in washington. their rally followed a glenn beck rally called restoring honor. an al sharpton rally called reclaiming the dream. you know what colbert's was called? rally to restore sanity. the point they made during the course of the rally was to single out the polarizing voice in the media including rush limbaugh. it is time for us to stop ceding the debate. rally to restore sanity. the headline on this story should have been colbert to restore sanity at 11:30. finally, i have a three-fer for you. the new york post, she's out sick. from the usa today web site. first take, sebelius exits battered and blamed. and from the wall street journal, sebelius to exit amid

rush limbaugh says the whole thing was staged. 23409 only that, he said it was designed to distract fromyou guessed it, benghazi. >> i'm sorry, i'm ill equipped to comment. maybe it's because in my sub tongs, i think it was staged or set up or whatever. i don't know why anyone would be throwing a shoe at hillary unless -- maybe it's an attempt to make the benghazi people look like nuts and lunatics and whackos. >> no, i think it makes you look that way. what if the shoe was on the other foot, so to speak. in this case george w. bush. back in december in 2008, he's a great ducker. encountered twice a similar incident, or set of incidents while holding a press conference. and herman cain tweeted this. fakery from the clintons? that hillary shoe throwing thing does kind of look fake. huh? we can say anything these days and some people will believe it. state republicans in wisconsin are set to vote on a proposal next month that would make secession a part of the gop's platform in the state. the so-called state sovereignty resolution was spearheaded by tea party activists who not only believe

but rush limbaugh has found a way to politicize this uproar. >> the guy is a big democrat.y reason he's in trouble right now is he did not give enough money to obama. >> great research. since rush limbo chose to do so, he ought to get it right. sterling is, in fact, a registered republican. of course, sterling's racist rant is the second of his kind and received national attention in less than a week. it comes off similar remarks to cliven bundy. but if conservatives would rather forget their crusade for bundy, it's unlikely bill maher is going to late them. >> he said they were better off perhaps as slaves picking cotton. so all the conservatives who for the last few weeks who have been lie onizing this guy had to backtrack. they say they no longer consider him a patriot hero. they consider him the front run fer the republican nomination in 2016. >>> up next, the one good thing that's come out of the donald sterling mess. you're watching "hardball" a place for politics. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's s

limbaugh said? >> that's the kind of sentence that is stroke inducing. i go through that paragraph and about halfway through, there's a slight twitch of the i and i can feel it blood vessel beginning to pump too much will stop he's an idiot. he is really just a mean-spirited prick. an assault on america -- let me see that. [laughter] comedy -- here is how big an assault it is going to be on american values. stephen colbert has five children, happily married, has a great family, was still hanging in with the catholic church when people were fleeing en masse. he doesn't know shit. >> what is it like to work with jon stewart. >> you should ask jon what it's like to work with me. he's great. he's smart. i've known him since we were both breaking into the clubs and he took off really quickly and i've watched his career. we have been friends in the sense of office friends. we don't hang out, but we respect what each other does and i consider it a pleasure to work with them. he is brilliant, which is really irritating. >> what is your thought on colbert replaci

the routine has won him plenty of fans and, yes, critics, including real-life conservative rush limbaugh cbs is just declared war on the heartland of america. they've hired a partisan so-called comedian. to run a comedy show. >> colbert has been mocking conservatives a decade. i'm not surprised rush limbaugh isn't happy with the choice nor do i think he'll tune in and watch colbert. a lot of others will. >> reporter: that is what cbs is counting on. but who is the real stephen colbert? we caught rare moments of colbert playing in straight in 2010 called to testify by a house subcommittee. >> migrant workers suffer and have no rights. >> reporter: his heartfelt records stemming from some made for tv moments in a recurring segment on his show colbert spent a day in the life of a migrant working parking corn and picking beans. >> and what's different about it? >> reporter: colbert was thrown into the national spotlight when cast as a correspondent on the daly show with jon stewart. >> so -- the exciting news today is, i no longer need a cable subscription for the privilege of watching colbe

announcements aired for free on rush limbaugh's program and on the al jazeera network. well, i bet you can guess what happened. we received angry letters and calls from all across the country asking how we could possibly support rush limbaugh and al jazeera. the reality is we did not and do not financially support them. but we did want their audiences to hear our message. while i'm not certain we received huge traction or new donors, what i do know is that our message about the importance of investing in students and students of color should be delivered whenever and wherever there is an audience. there should be no litmus test on who wants to support uncf. and hbcu's. urs is not a partisan message. it is a universal appeal and one we believe all americans should support. in the end, i bet we did get a couple of new supporters. but the bottom line is education for low income minority students must transcend politics. if we are to succeed. it's important to emphasize that uncf does not consider the crisis facing hbcu's as the only or perhaps even the most important issue

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rush limbaugh had this to say. >> you care what i think of colbert getting letterman's gig?give you the short version. cbs has just declared war on the heartland of america. no longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional american values, now it's wide out in the open. >> now here is the point in the segment i'm supposed to say rush limbaugh is being ridiculous but i don't think he and others are ridiculous. i don't think they are ridiculous as conservatives. conservatives have a right to be upset that stephen colbert is taking over this huge platform because part of the reason why i love the guy, and i do love and admire him, is stephen colbert has real politics, genuine, thoughtful, liberal politics. and if you don't believe me, watch colbert testify before a house subcommittee about his interests in the rights of immigrant farmers. >> i like talking about people who don't have any power. and this seems like one of the least powerful people in the united states are migrant workers who come and to our work but don't have any rights as a result, and yet we st

. >> rush limbaugh seems to be suffering from a case of freezer burn. in this day and age, rush limbaugh, i'll have to play the sound because i can't really paraphrase the man. unfortunately, we have to full screen it. i will read to you rush's words. the regime, and speaking here of course of the imperial presidency of barack obama, the regime has gone back to this equal pay for women thing which is old hat and not even applicable anymore. i would argue as the senator has that in this day and age, it's even more -- it is critical to address the issue of women's pay if one third of all households have women as the sole bread winners. >> and i would say what we learned today is lilly ledbetter lost $200,000 of income because she was discriminated against because she was a woman. think about what that means in our economy when women are making 70 cents on the dollar. that means families are losing out. that is money on the table for women and their families. and that is why i think this conversation that the gop is having is really out of touch. to call i

i think no other person bears this out better than rush limbaugh, i must play a choice piece of soundan president has, sadly, resorted to exacerbating racial tension. and he's got an attorney general who is helping him. >> jamelle, the country's first american african-american president is exacerbating racial tensions presumably because he's talking about lbj's civil rights legacy. >> i don't know what that's supposed to mean, right? like talking about race is exacerbating racial tensions? in which case we can't talk about anything, we can't talk about income equality, means talking about the racial wealth gap. if obama were to talk about the racial wealth gap, he's exacerbating race. for a large segment of the right, most of the right, there is a complete melding of ideological conservative and racial conservatism that holes any mention of race is almost, if not equivalent to racism in that the only way you can approach american life is color-blind as if racial inequalities are things that van ished when martin luther king jr. had a vision in march. you're only allowed to talk about

think the rusch lim bh limbaugh world are reenforcing it. more than than the same old mess we had 40, 50, 60 years ago. >> but they are not ads far as audience impact. all you have to do is listen to cliven bundy. the numbers, ratings and signal are different today. where is this going to be in five years? >> exactly. and it is as michael said old. and demographically tile is not on the side of this despicable narrative. young kids are growing up with different values. and to them, this is a caricature. >> and finally dr. dyson, all of the sudden hannity and these guys on the right are trying to disstance themselves from cliven bundy. what do you make of it? >> well, first of all we ought to congratulate for having enough sense. if they had not done so, we would have been critical. let's get them an a-plus for effort. let's make them skrut niz their own practices. a lot of stuff they say and do, this is why it's a continuum. when politicians are speaking about those people who are urban, who are ill behaved, black people, brown people, so th

by the end, even commentators like rush limbaugh were onboard, too.displeasure with bush's comments known, but when the primaries rolled around, bush had no bigger booster than limbaugh, and really the entire conservative opinion shaping class. bush won them over by passing most of their litmus tests, but picking just a few moments to tell the rest of the country that he was a different kind of republican. that experience may have been on rush limbaugh's mind this week when he offered a more clinical assessment of jeb bush's immigration comment than most of his fellow conservatives. >> i think what jeb's doing in preparation for maybe running, jeb is saying things to get this conservative backlash to him out of the way. i really think when he says hey, people come in here as an act of love, that's designed to tick us all of, or tick the tea party people off now. get it done with and over with and then out of the way, and move on. >> the question is whether that same george w. playbook from 2000 will work in the republican party of 2016. it's also the

>> i think that's a crucial piece of this, the fox news, rush limbaugh glenn beck access there. piece that was just mentioned is you've got dean helder, the united states senator from n nv calling these guys patriots. brian sandoval, the republican governor of nevada declining to criticize bundy and his people as much as he's interested in criticizing the federal government's response to this. you have the rand paul wing saying the federal government is misbehaving. so i think that's a new and very ominous thing. enate fits a lot with the sovereign state, the states rights movements and aimless talks of secession you're hearing every from texas to wisconsin. that, i think, is important because you're hearing that from officials not just some guy in a t-shirt with an automatic weapon. >> that's an excellent point. coming up, who's really behind those leaflets telling ukrainian jews to register with the new government there? [ dennis ] it's always the same dilemma -- who gets the allstate safe driving bonus check. rock beats scissors! [ chuckles ] wife beats rock. and with two che

guess which one, rush limbaugh? or jim downing? ♪ [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today...and tomorrow. so let's see what we can do about that... remodel. motorcycle. [ female announcer ] some questions take more than a bank. they take a banker. make a my financial priorities appointment today. because when people talk, great things happen. >> the next thing you know i will be forced into the closet for my beliefs. everywhere i go people will assume that i am okay with gay marriage. i will know mine heart that is not who i am. no one can ever make me believe it gets better, because frankly, things are great for me now. >> that was colbert last night when it turns out that he already knew things were going to get better for him today. after an intense week of sp

rush limbaugh, you know, rush limbaugh's start in radio came at the end of the reagan era. he kind of rode ronald reagan to his success. so i think people like ronald reagan, people like sean hannity, who calls himself a reagan kid. they're emotionally invested in reagan's success, too. so they're the ones who call out candidates who break from the orthodoxy and can cause somebody problems with those primary voters. >> will bunch, senior writer at the "philadelphia daily news," the author of "tear down this myth: how the reagan legacy has distorted our truth and haunt our future." you wrote that book a few years ago, it's going to get more and more important towards the course of 2016. thanks so much. >> thanks, rachel. appreciate it. >>> all right, why the size of alaska, the enormous physical size of the place, may wind up mattering a lot for the national elections this year. it's a weird story out of alaska that i don't think anybody realizes the national implications of, but we've got that coming up. stay with us. cars are driven by people. they're why we innovate. they

beck has the blaze, limbaugh's e got just about anything any right-wing talker wants.ou guys have all these resources but you don't have anybody on staff who will go after this number. prove that it's wrong. because if you can prove that that number is wrong, then the democrats are going to be in big trouble. and then you'll be able to say i was the one that came out and proved this 7.1 million -- use some of those resources, some of those websites and get after it. i'll just sit back and follow your coverage because it's going to be very entertaining. you can't disprove that. call up the insurance companies who are publicly held. see if the ceo wants to lie about how many people have signed up. this is easily verifiable. we've had a week of critics including the sunday shows questioning whether the 7.1 million, questioning whether it's successful or not, but nobody wants to throw any resources in finding out whether it's the truth or not. gosh, come on. give us a little benghazi work, will you? get your cell phones out. want to know what you think. tonight's question,

he is just like limbaugh. he thinks our rich role models deserve tax breaks.pparently, he also thinks the poor will eat if they're really hungry, because he guts food stamps. and he might as well be a fox news contributor, because he also has some issues with "sesame street." let's face it. these ideas are dangerous, even if all they do is push the conversation farther and farther to the right. because as the president made clear yesterday, we're better than a winner take all society. >> look, it does create opportunity for a handful of people who are already doing really, really well. but we believe in opportunity for everybody. mortgage ops for everybody. more workers to fill those jocks, a world class education for everybody, hard work that pays off with wages you can live on, and savings you can retire on and health care you can count on. that's what opportunity for all means. >> we've got to give opportunity, even if congressman ryan and his fellow republicans think otherwise. joining me now are congresswoman karen bass, democrat from california, and msnb

ability to distribute radio programs via satellite meant that the rise of the personalities like rush limbaugh they could syndicate their shows much more easily on a live basis where previously it was more expensive for much more difficult with the reduction of sound quality. one of the ironies is starting in the 1980s if we step back a little bit further you do have a return to certain kinds of national radio and a certain kind of hybridized system where now we have local stations but they will use their drawing djs from different locations and pretending like they are broadcasting from a given area. i think the local public radio traffic guy actually lives in richmond and does his broadcast from there. he describes the local traffic complications in washington d.c. and kind of jumping through spaces in what makes audio broadcasting pretty interesting. >> host: alexander russo when you teach radio in your media studies classes would you want your students to take away? >> guest: i want them to take away the ways that the medium has transformed itself again and again, that the initial ways tha

and you quote rush limbaugh extensively with regard to big government is terrible and then you good to the federalist papers and all the rest. but then you have to somehow explain to me, well, then how is it you can say but social security, medicare, these things that our seniors rely on, that's a good thing, clearly you're a big fan of defense spending and that's -- guess what, the founding fathers were not about international use of our military over seas. they didn't want they. >> guest: to mass jefferson would find that difficult. he sent marines to the barbary coast. >> guest: there's a strain of that in the country. let talk about defense. there are a lot of weapon systems and planes and ships the military have said they don't want and don't need, and, yet, because those things are built in the strict of congressman so and so, they get built knee because it makes him or her look good, creates more jobs. this is the kind of wasteful spending i'm talking about and it's both republican and democrat. they're both cup panel. we need something akin to at the grace commission during the

> that brings us to another topic that you suggest in "what works" sub by then you've quote rush limbaugh with regard to big government is terrible and "the federalist papers and all the rest but then you have to somehow explain to me how is it that you can say social security and medicare and these things that are seniors rely on is a good thing and clearly you you're a big fan of defense spending and that is of course guess what the founding fathers were not about international use of our military. >> guest: thomas jefferson would find that difficult. he sent them to the barbary coast. >> host: in their initial precept was we have nothing to do with it. >> guest: horse there is still a strain of that today but let's talk about defense. this may surprise you that i agree on this. there are a lot of weapons systems in planes and ships that the military has said they don't want and don't need and yet because those things are built in the district of so-and-so they are built anyway because it makes him or her look good and creates more jobs. this is the wasteful spending and talking about i

erick erickson of red state, conservative blogger, activist was filling in for rush limbaugh. i asked where is the line. this is the line and over the line and beyond. >> she's going to be old. i don't know how far back they can pull her face. >> that's just mean. it's sexist and it's mean. my question is this then, is the conservative venom for hillary, do they so fear her that they'll wander into mistake-land like they did questioning where barack obama was born? do they take it too personally? >> they do. you have certain voices on the right that do that and it causes massive problems for everybody else in the party that is not making those kinds of comments. that's exactly where republicans will run into trouble, especially if there are people out there talking a lot about her age and her health and raising questions about her health over and over again when we don't necessarily have evidence yet one way or the other. >> secretary clinton has been successful in the past when she is under attack. remember rick lazio approaching her on the debate stage. you're likable enough

a number of times last year our psa announcements aired for free on rush limbaugh's program it on the al jazeera network. i bet you can guess what happened. we receive angry letters and calls from all across the country asking how we could possibly support rush limbaugh and al jazeera. the reality is we did not and do not financially support those that we did want their audiences to hear our message. while i'm not certain that we've received huge attraction or new donors but i do know is our message about the importance of investing in students and students of color should be delivered whenever and wherever there is an audience there should be no litmus test on who wants to support the uncf. ours is not a partisan message is a universal appeal and one that we believe all americans should support. in the end i bet we could get a couple of students at the bottom line is education for low-income minority students must transcend politics if we are to succeed him. it'succeed. it's important to emphasize that uncf doesn't consider the crisis facing hbcu's as the most important education tod

we get this from he said maybe rush since we have rush limbaugh. rush may be feeling slighted he wasn't considered. get him a onesie. >> i think everybody would be better with a onesie. that is the end of "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >>> there was some big news last week that slipped through my news crack, and it concerns someone i've admired for years and yet surprisingly is not me. i'm talking about david letterman who last thursday night announced his retirement. and i am going to miss this good man. dave has been on the air my entire adult life. "late night" debuted my first night in college. i learned more from dave than i did going to my classes. especially the ones i did not go to because i had stayed up until 1:30 watching dave. this man has influenced every host who came after him and even a few who came before him, he's that good. and i got to tell you, i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. >> well, now. good morning. that was interesting. it's friday, april 11th. it's friday. does anyone feel like thi

because we're using rush limbaugh on one of his diatribes.do this six times a week and we're only five days a week. >> that's why you guys are so successful. >> i think karl marx had some good times. >> we live in great times, my friend. >> you are the one who says it's horrible because of obama. >> number one on amazon. what's number two? fun with cyanide? i call it misery amnesia. that's what left wingers have. they embrace ideas that have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. these are policies that destroy economies and reduce people into eating themselves alive. if you've ever read about the ukraine, bob, you will know. >> i have read about the ukraine. i know exactly what you are talking about. >> that's collectivism. >> you want to rain some common sense on this table right now. >> ths a very popular book among the left. is the left just admitting they are this radical and they are just saying, you know, we're this cocky bring it on? >> yeah. because they think they are that awesome and unique and they have